FISD scholars bound for state

JARED DENNISTON

Published 6:00 pm, Tuesday, February 1, 2005

After Saturday's regional competition at Alvin High School, the team finished with the highest score out of all the medium-sized schools, putting them in the competition along with similar sized schools like New Caney and Foster high schools. They scored the highest out of any school in the state, said team sponsor Kady Schmidt, although she admits that the team still has a long road ahead of them before they head to the state meet in San Antonio on Feb. 25-26.

"The Friendswood High School Academic Decathlon team could not have made their

coaches more proud at the Regional contest in Alvin this past weekend," she said. "The team plans to work extremely hard this next month to ensure a State Championship for the 13th year in a row."

Ahead of the team, which consists of nine students-equally divided between students with "A," "B," and "C" averages-is another four weeks of training before the competition.

The competition will consist of questions stemming from ten categories: Art, Economics, Essay, Interview, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Science, and Speech. The final event of the competition will be the Super Quiz, where team members from each team takes turns answering questions from one general field of study; this year's topic is astronomy.

At the regional meet, FHS won first place overall, first place SuperQuiz Team, and first place Superquiz Relay.